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  • 2000
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2000
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 32 m
Beau Travail

Summary The soldiers of a small French Foreign Legion outpost spend their days practicing drills and exercising. Sergeant Galoup seems to be the perfect Legionnaire: a brooding, young loner who runs his troop efficiently until Sentain, a new recruit, arrives and threatens to upset the balance of his world.

Directed By: Claire Denis

Written By: Jean-Pol Fargeau, Herman Melville, Claire Denis

  • 2000
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2000
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 32 m

Beau Travail

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
must-see
91
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 31 User Ratings
7.4
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Summary The soldiers of a small French Foreign Legion outpost spend their days practicing drills and exercising. Sergeant Galoup seems to be the perfect Legionnaire: a brooding, young loner who runs his troop efficiently until Sentain, a new recruit, arrives and threatens to upset the balance of his world.

Directed By: Claire Denis

Written By: Jean-Pol Fargeau, Herman Melville, Claire Denis

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
91
95% Positive
19 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
91
95% Positive
19 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
A movie so tactile in its cinematography, inventive in its camera placement, and sensuous in its editing that the purposefully oblique and languid narrative is all but eclipsed.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
100
For anyone who wants to see wildly inventive, peerless filmmaking that's oblivious to market-place formulas, Beau Travail is an absolute must-see.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 31 User Ratings
7.4
71% Positive
22 Ratings
16% Mixed
5 Ratings
13% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 31 User Ratings
7.4
71% Positive
22 Ratings
16% Mixed
5 Ratings
13% Negative
4 Ratings

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100
A film that has the sweep and esthetic power of a full-length ballet.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
90
Claire Denis' baffling and exhilarating "Billy Budd" smolders with heat-blasted rhythms and supercharged acting.
By Charles Taylor FULL REVIEW
89
A stunning work of beauty, mystery, contemplation, and grit -- and like sands through the desert hourglass, these are the days of our lives.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
70
Denis dispenses with most of Melville's hefty Christian symbolism in favor of the story's other great theme -- repressed homoerotic desire.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
50
If only Beau Travail had a more dramatic edge, this nicely done film wouldn't have felt so long.
By Marta Barber FULL REVIEW
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Production Company La Sept-Arte, Pathé Télévision, S.M. Films, Tanaïs Productions
Release Date Mar 31, 2000
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Village Voice Film Poll
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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